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Preparing for Spring Gardening & Homesteading With Children Underfoot

January 20, 2015 · In: family, gardening

While we are still in the depths of Winter here in Virginia, we homesteaders often start thinking about Spring, seeds, gardening and new life on our homesteads at the beginning…

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We have become very good at buying supplements. A We have become very good at buying supplements.

A new vitamin for energy. A probiotic for digestion. An herb for stress. A powder for inflammation. Another bottle promising to support the immune system. And some of those things can be incredibly useful.

But there is a question we often fail to ask:
Is my body able to properly digest, absorb, and use what I am giving it?

Our wellness cabinets can be overflowing while our understanding of the body remains painfully limited. This is why I believe gut health must be approached with education—not simply another shopping list.

You need to understand what prebiotics and probiotics actually do. You need to know where enzymes fit into digestion. You need to learn how food, fiber, fermented foods, herbs, stress, and everyday habits can influence the digestive process.

You do not need to become fearful of food. You do not need to purchase every supplement someone recommends. You do not need to follow every wellness trend that moves across your screen.

But you do need knowledge.

That is why I created The Gut Health Handbook for Women—and Men! It walks you through the foundations of digestive health and gives you practical information you can begin using in your own home.

Before you buy another supplement, take time to understand the body you are trying to support.

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This handbook is educational and is not a substitute for individualized medical care.
It’s ok if your family is different. It’s ok if y It’s ok if your family is different. 
It’s ok if you stay at home with your kids and raise them the way God intended. 
It’s ok if your kids don’t spend all their waking moments entertained with extra curricular activities away from home.
It’s ok if you make your kids help you clean the house, milk the cows, and weed the garden.
It’s ok if you chose unconventional healthcare and your kids have never been to an allopathic doctor. 
It’s ok if you and your husband actually communicate and love each other.
It’s ok if your teenager has boundaries and they aren’t allowed to be of the world before they are mature enough to handle it with wisdom. 
It’s ok…and I thought you should know that. And I think you should know that if you don’t believe any of those things, too. 

I will never apologize for homeschooling my kids and not allowing them to be part of an indoctrinated system. I have seen that village, and I want no part of it. The fornication culture, competition culture, and consumer culture isn’t for us. We unsubscribe. 

Instead I want kids who an independent, self-driven, discerning, clear minded, honoring, not fighting to “be loved”, wise, kind, modest, loving, and courageous. I want my boys to be warriors, yet gentle enough to hold their wife and babies. I want my girls to be gentle, but courageous enough to stand up against injustice. 

There is an innocence that our children have been losing sooner and sooner with each generation. I want my kids to be informed but not consumed. I want their minds to be full of Christ before the world fights for their attention. I want their lives to be influenced by God fearing people so they aren’t corrupted by worldly people when they leave here. I want them to be so confident in who they are in Christ, that no one can convince them they aren’t good enough.

And that’s ok.
I've been talking about famine, but I had no idea I've been talking about famine, but I had no idea that God would be talking to me so personally about famine right here on my homestead this year. Not in the way you may think.

In the springtime I began ripping this wild herb out of my garden beds. It didn't make sense—the seed bank in these beds should be long gone of weeds overtaking them. But here I was, ripping out this plant by the barrel load. 

Suddenly I stopped, got out of my tunnel vision, and thought to myself—if it doesn't make sense, then what is God trying to show me? My goodness, was I shocked when I really dove into the history and uses of this beautiful wild plant. 

Historically, lambs quarters was used as a crop for livestock and humans because it was drought resistant. During great famines, lambs quarter leaves were eaten extensively, and the seeds were saved and used like quinoa. This plan is still widely used in places like Africa today, where produce and rain is scarce. 

Lambs quarters has pretty much every mineral your body would ever need. It has 200% MORE calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, zinc, vitamins, Omega-3 fatty acids, and protein than kale and spinach (and other common leafy greens). Making it the exceptional famine food. 

Our ancestors ate it regularly as a gentle anti parasitic, anti inflammatory, antioxidant, and for liver support.

I plan to save most of the seeds from the plants I've let take over a bed, and cultivate it widely on our homestead.

I wrote all about this incredible plant in a brand new blog post on my website. 
 
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Last week I talked about capacity, and how some pe Last week I talked about capacity, and how some people just have lesser capacity than others. But also, that there is wisdom in knowing when you should, and should not, have high capacity. Seasons of rest are essential. Maybe you’re a mom and littles and you have to put other things on the back burner. Being high capacity in a delicate season like that will likely burn you out of all the things. Maybe you’ve had health issues and need to lighten the load. But low capacity should never be because you lack self confidence or you’re lazy. 

This week, though, I want to talk about some real truth around capacity. Because the reality is that you can increase capacity, and you can decrease capacity, but you cannot SUSTAIN high capacity. It won’t work. This is where we see what we call “burn out”. 

A wise person will understand that in order to increase capacity higher, you must push yourself to beyond anywhere you have ever been in a season. Eventually, the capacity evens out, if you do it well, and you reach a point and begin to decrease that capacity before expanding again.

You can decrease capacity in order to rest, evaluate, heal, plan, organize, and test yourself.  Or, as in the seasons I mentioned above.

But never, can you ever, forever sustain a high capacity. 

You can have a bigger capacity than someone else. But having a larger capacity and living in “high capacity” are different. Most real leaders naturally have the gift and ability to manage a large capacity. They expand and decrease, and expand again—each time that expansion building out a larger foundation so that building increase happens more quickly each time.

But good leaders know that they can go go go (sometimes for months and years) at that rate, yet eventually they will have to lessen the load so they can recoup before they build up more capacity. The foundation remains, and is ready for them to expand again when they have rested.

Rest. Excel. Rest. Repeat. 
Less capacity. Higher capacity. Less capacity. Repeat. 

It’s all about balance, friends. You can do it. 💛
Alright friends, here’s your Weekly Ag Brief — the Alright friends, here’s your Weekly Ag Brief — the week in food, farming, and freedom. 🌾

🪰 SCREWWORM: A flesh-eating fly is spreading through Texas livestock — 30+ animals now, including sheep and goats. Easy to spot and treat if you’re paying attention. Check your animals, especially newborn navels.

🥬 PARASITE IN THE LETTUCE: Cyclospora has sickened 840+ people across 31 states — a parasite whose only known host is human beings. Officials suspect store-bought leafy greens. Which makes you wonder about all that “biosolids” (a tidy word for treated human sewage) D.C. spent years pushing farmers to spread on their fields. You know what never has this problem? The lettuce in a pot on your porch.

💵 DISASTER $: USDA quietly improved its farm disaster programs — predator losses now paid at 100%, unborn livestock covered back to 2024, some of it automatic. (I don’t take government money — but if you would, it’s there.)

🔬 TESTING: For the first time, USDA/HHS/EPA will test processed foods for heavy metals. Good — now do glyphosate.

🏛️ FARM BILL: The Senate’s back, aiming to mark up “Farm Bill 2.0.” This is the big one. Watch it religiously.

🇺🇸 KNOW YOUR FARMER: Ten more companies adopted the “Product of USA” label, and Farm to School hit a record $20M for local food in schools.

🫐 RECALL: Frozen organic blueberries at Publix (8 states) tied to an E. coli outbreak — check for lot 60401.

The thread through all of it? The closer your food is to your own hands, the safer it is.

Full breakdown on my Substack — comment BRIEF to have it sent to your inbox

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